PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Jeff Garzik]

I just pulled the "pata-drivers" branch of libata-dev.git into the 
"upstream" branch, which means that Alan's libata PATA driver collection 
is now queued for 2.6.19.

Testing-wise, these PATA drivers have been Andrew Morton's -mm tree for 
many months.  Community-wise, no one posted objections to the PATA 
driver merge plan, when Alan posted it on LKML and linux-ide.

The following must be in all caps, though:

drivers/ide IS STILL THE PATA DRIVER SET THAT USERS AND DISTROS SHOULD 
CHOOSE.

At this time, drivers/ide should not be added to 
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt.  The libata PATA driver set 
should be considered experimental still, and there remains a few 
user-visible differences between the two trees:

* Host-protected area (HPA) not ignored in libata, which means disk 
sizes differ between drivers/ide (whole disk) and libata (whole disk 
minus HPA).

* The obvious change between /dev/hdX to /dev/sdX

* /dev/sdX supports fewer partitions than /dev/hdX (16 versus 64, IIRC)

* /dev/sdX does not support all the HDIO_xxx ioctls that /dev/hdX does. 
  In practice, the ioctls we ignored are ones that very few people care 
about.

* ARM, PPC and other non-x86 platform drivers are severely 
under-represented.

As an aside, I would love to see paride updated to use libata, but we 
can probably count the number of paride users on one hand these days...

	Jeff



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Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Grant Coady]

On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 07:01:13 -0400, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:

>
>I just pulled the "pata-drivers" branch of libata-dev.git into the 
>"upstream" branch, which means that Alan's libata PATA driver collection 
>is now queued for 2.6.19.
>
>Testing-wise, these PATA drivers have been Andrew Morton's -mm tree for 
>many months.  Community-wise, no one posted objections to the PATA 
>driver merge plan, when Alan posted it on LKML and linux-ide.

Too friggin' hard to test Alan's stuff for older IDE here, therefore 
ignored so far :(   I have some old hardware that Alan is addressing, 
even an old IBM 260MB PCMCIA HDD.

I can't see an easy way to arrange multi-boot with different /etc/fstab 
depending if I'm trying /dev/hdaX or /dev/sdaX.  Parallel '/' partitions?


Plus, 2.6.18-rcX fails too early in boot on one machine (p100 IBM 365X) 
for any testing.  Suggestions welcome...

Grant.

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Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Alan Cox]

Ar Llu, 2006-09-04 am 07:01 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jeff Garzik:
> The following must be in all caps, though:
> 
> drivers/ide IS STILL THE PATA DRIVER SET THAT USERS AND DISTROS SHOULD 
> CHOOSE.

Except optionally for the following for chips not handled by or broken
totally in drivers/ide:

	pata_mpiix - some early pentium era laptops
	pata_oldpiix - original "PIIX" chipset
	pata_radisys - embedded chipset

The other apparently "libata only" chips are pata_jmicron and
pata_optidma. There are patches to handle these as "generic" PCI IDE in
the base 2.6.18 tree already so only features will be lost (eg mode
switching). As Jeff implies distributions should be using drivers/ide
for the Jmicron PATA and the Opti DMA PATA for now.

> * /dev/sdX supports fewer partitions than /dev/hdX (16 versus 64, IIRC)
> 
> * /dev/sdX does not support all the HDIO_xxx ioctls that /dev/hdX does. 
>   In practice, the ioctls we ignored are ones that very few people care 
> about.

Add "/dev/sr*" does not support partitions. (That needs fixing anyway)
    
> * ARM, PPC and other non-x86 platform drivers are severely 
> under-represented.

libata needs changes for this too. I have some stuff saved from the
older discussions to look at.

> As an aside, I would love to see paride updated to use libata, but we 
> can probably count the number of paride users on one hand these days...

and thats without using fingers or thumbs.


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Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Jan Engelhardt]

>>I just pulled the "pata-drivers" branch of libata-dev.git into the 
>>"upstream" branch, which means that Alan's libata PATA driver collection 
>>is now queued for 2.6.19.
>>
>>Testing-wise, these PATA drivers have been Andrew Morton's -mm tree for 
>>many months.  Community-wise, no one posted objections to the PATA 
>>driver merge plan, when Alan posted it on LKML and linux-ide.
>
>Too friggin' hard to test Alan's stuff for older IDE here, therefore 
>ignored so far :(   I have some old hardware that Alan is addressing, 
>even an old IBM 260MB PCMCIA HDD.
>
>I can't see an easy way to arrange multi-boot with different /etc/fstab 
>depending if I'm trying /dev/hdaX or /dev/sdaX.  Parallel '/' partitions?

Got udev?

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3802110A_5LR13RN7-partX could be your friend.

>Plus, 2.6.18-rcX fails too early in boot on one machine (p100 IBM 365X) 
>for any testing.  Suggestions welcome...

dmesg or any log.



Jan Engelhardt
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Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> * /dev/sdX does not support all the HDIO_xxx ioctls that /dev/hdX does. 
>>   In practice, the ioctls we ignored are ones that very few people care 
>> about.
>
>Add "/dev/sr*" does not support partitions. (That needs fixing anyway)

scd*/sr* is usually CDROM, which in the rarest case have a partition table, 
don't they? (sd* stands for Scsi Disk, but what's the r in sr standing 
for?)

>> As an aside, I would love to see paride updated to use libata, but we 
>> can probably count the number of paride users on one hand these days...
>
>and thats without using fingers or thumbs.

0? Could it be removed then? [I'm waiting for loud objection screams from 
paride users...]



Jan Engelhardt
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Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Jeff Garzik]

Grant Coady wrote:
> I can't see an easy way to arrange multi-boot with different /etc/fstab 
> depending if I'm trying /dev/hdaX or /dev/sdaX.  Parallel '/' partitions?

That's actually pretty darn easy, with a modern distro.  Use filesystem 
labels, and LABEL= in your /etc/fstab.

The LABEL= feature allowed me to bounce between drivers/ide and libata a 
dozen times a day, when I was doing the initial libata development.

	Jeff



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Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Jeff Garzik]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> As an aside, I would love to see paride updated to use libata, but we 
>>> can probably count the number of paride users on one hand these days...
>> and thats without using fingers or thumbs.
> 
> 0? Could it be removed then? [I'm waiting for loud objection screams from 
> paride users...]


I think Al Viro still uses paride ;-)

	Jeff



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Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Tomasz Torcz]

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On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 02:07:29PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >>I just pulled the "pata-drivers" branch of libata-dev.git into the 
> >>"upstream" branch, which means that Alan's libata PATA driver collection 
> >>is now queued for 2.6.19.
> >>
> >>Testing-wise, these PATA drivers have been Andrew Morton's -mm tree for 
> >>many months.  Community-wise, no one posted objections to the PATA 
> >>driver merge plan, when Alan posted it on LKML and linux-ide.
> >
> >Too friggin' hard to test Alan's stuff for older IDE here, therefore 
> >ignored so far :(   I have some old hardware that Alan is addressing, 
> >even an old IBM 260MB PCMCIA HDD.
> >
> >I can't see an easy way to arrange multi-boot with different /etc/fstab 
> >depending if I'm trying /dev/hdaX or /dev/sdaX.  Parallel '/' partitions?
> 
> Got udev?
> 
> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3802110A_5LR13RN7-partX could be your friend.

  Almost. It would alternate between "ata-" and "scsi-".

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Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Alan Cox]

Ar Llu, 2006-09-04 am 22:02 +1000, ysgrifennodd Grant Coady:
> I can't see an easy way to arrange multi-boot with different /etc/fstab 
> depending if I'm trying /dev/hdaX or /dev/sdaX.  Parallel '/' partitions?

Mount by label on modern distributions. You can also generally boot far
enough to just test by booting a libata kernel with
root=/dev/sdawhatever init=/bin/sh

Thats enough to get a test shell and poke around and check the boot
messages

Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> Got udev?
>> 
>> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3802110A_5LR13RN7-partX could be your friend.
>
>  Almost. It would alternate between "ata-" and "scsi-".

Well then label your partitions and use /dev/disk/by-label/ (harhar...)

You can also try by-uuid (FS UUID) (a214ecf5-6e06-47a8-bc6d-9cd9d6f10cd6) 
or by-path (pci-0000:00:1f.1-ide-0:0-part1).


Jan Engelhardt
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Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Andras Mantia]

Jeff Garzik wrote:

> 
> I just pulled the "pata-drivers" branch of libata-dev.git into the
> "upstream" branch, which means that Alan's libata PATA driver collection
> is now queued for 2.6.19.
> 
> Testing-wise, these PATA drivers have been Andrew Morton's -mm tree for
> many months.  Community-wise, no one posted objections to the PATA
> driver merge plan, when Alan posted it on LKML and linux-ide.

Does this include the patch to support the PATA port on the promise
controllers (described here
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=176249 ) ?

Andras
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Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Jeff Garzik]

Andras Mantia wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>> I just pulled the "pata-drivers" branch of libata-dev.git into the
>> "upstream" branch, which means that Alan's libata PATA driver collection
>> is now queued for 2.6.19.
>>
>> Testing-wise, these PATA drivers have been Andrew Morton's -mm tree for
>> many months.  Community-wise, no one posted objections to the PATA
>> driver merge plan, when Alan posted it on LKML and linux-ide.
> 
> Does this include the patch to support the PATA port on the promise
> controllers (described here
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=176249 ) ?

Unfortunately not.  This patch still lives in -mm (and branch 
promise-sata-pata).

Hopefully this can be merged once the init code is cleaned up some more.

	Jeff

Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Helge Hafting]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> I just pulled the "pata-drivers" branch of libata-dev.git into the 
>>> "upstream" branch, which means that Alan's libata PATA driver collection 
>>> is now queued for 2.6.19.
>>>
>>> Testing-wise, these PATA drivers have been Andrew Morton's -mm tree for 
>>> many months.  Community-wise, no one posted objections to the PATA 
>>> driver merge plan, when Alan posted it on LKML and linux-ide.
>>>       
>> Too friggin' hard to test Alan's stuff for older IDE here, therefore 
>> ignored so far :(   I have some old hardware that Alan is addressing, 
>> even an old IBM 260MB PCMCIA HDD.
>>
>> I can't see an easy way to arrange multi-boot with different /etc/fstab 
>> depending if I'm trying /dev/hdaX or /dev/sdaX.  Parallel '/' partitions?
>>     
>
> Got udev?
>
> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3802110A_5LR13RN7-partX could be your friend.
>   
Udev fixes this for most filesystems - except / which is cruical.
With / on raid-1 this is not a problem, as md autodetect will
assemble the arrays whether they are on ide or scsi.
But anyone with / on a partition can't easily switch
between sda/hda unless they also use an initrd.  The kernel
itself does not seem to support partition by label. :-(

Helge Hafting

Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[John Stoffel]

>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

Alan> Ar Llu, 2006-09-04 am 07:01 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jeff Garzik:
>> The following must be in all caps, though:
>> 
>> drivers/ide IS STILL THE PATA DRIVER SET THAT USERS AND DISTROS SHOULD 
>> CHOOSE.

Alan> Except optionally for the following for chips not handled by or broken
Alan> totally in drivers/ide:

Alan> 	pata_mpiix - some early pentium era laptops
Alan> 	pata_oldpiix - original "PIIX" chipset
Alan> 	pata_radisys - embedded chipset

What about pata_hpt37x and it's failure to work with my HPT302 Rev one
controller?  I admit it could be just an IRQ problem, but since
2.6.18-rc5-mm1 works with the old ide/pci/hpt366.c, but not with the
new version?  It's using the same interrupt each time too.

John

Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Sergei Shtylyov]

John Stoffel wrote:
>>>>>>"Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> 
> 
> Alan> Ar Llu, 2006-09-04 am 07:01 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jeff Garzik:
> 
>>>The following must be in all caps, though:
>>>
>>>drivers/ide IS STILL THE PATA DRIVER SET THAT USERS AND DISTROS SHOULD 
>>>CHOOSE.
> 
> 
> Alan> Except optionally for the following for chips not handled by or broken
> Alan> totally in drivers/ide:
> 
> Alan> 	pata_mpiix - some early pentium era laptops
> Alan> 	pata_oldpiix - original "PIIX" chipset
> Alan> 	pata_radisys - embedded chipset
> 
> What about pata_hpt37x and it's failure to work with my HPT302 Rev one
> controller?  I admit it could be just an IRQ problem, but since
> 2.6.18-rc5-mm1 works with the old ide/pci/hpt366.c, but not with the

    Hm, I believe this driver hasn't been updated since 2.617-mm4 (I have one 
patch pending still).

> new version?  It's using the same interrupt each time too.

    What's up with it?

Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Alan Cox]

Ar Maw, 2006-09-05 am 15:26 +0200, ysgrifennodd Helge Hafting:
> between sda/hda unless they also use an initrd.  The kernel
> itself does not seem to support partition by label. :-(

This is correct and one reason vendor kernels generally use an initrd.
The kernel does however support "root=/dev/sda1"

Alan

Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[John Stoffel]

>>>>> "Sergei" == Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> writes:

Sergei> John Stoffel wrote:
>>>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
>> 
>> 
Alan> Ar Llu, 2006-09-04 am 07:01 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jeff Garzik:
>> 
>>>> The following must be in all caps, though:
>>>> 
>>>> drivers/ide IS STILL THE PATA DRIVER SET THAT USERS AND DISTROS SHOULD 
>>>> CHOOSE.
>> 
>> 
Alan> Except optionally for the following for chips not handled by or broken
Alan> totally in drivers/ide:
>> 
Alan> pata_mpiix - some early pentium era laptops
Alan> pata_oldpiix - original "PIIX" chipset
Alan> pata_radisys - embedded chipset
>> 
>> What about pata_hpt37x and it's failure to work with my HPT302 Rev one
>> controller?  I admit it could be just an IRQ problem, but since
>> 2.6.18-rc5-mm1 works with the old ide/pci/hpt366.c, but not with the

Sergei>     Hm, I believe this driver hasn't been updated since
Sergei> 2.617-mm4 (I have one patch pending still).

>> new version?  It's using the same interrupt each time too.

Sergei>     What's up with it?

Look back in the archives for my messages on this.  Basically, trying
to use the pata_hpt37x driver on an Rocket133 card (HPT302 Rev 1 chip)
fails with a bunch of errors shown below.  This is a PCI add-on card
with /home and /local filesystems on there, mirrored across a pair of
120gb WD drives.  The system also has a pair of builtin SCSI
controllers (AIC7xxx) which hold the OS filesystems, as well as a tape
drive for backups.  It's an SMP system.  I guess I should try to boot
it up UP and see how it goes then as well.

I've tried booting 2.6.18-rc4-mm3 with the irqpoll option, but it
didn't make a difference.  

Do you need more details?

  irq 18: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
   [<c0104061>] dump_trace+0x1e1/0x210
   [<c01040aa>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
   [<c0104832>] show_trace+0x12/0x20
   [<c01049a9>] dump_stack+0x19/0x20
   [<c01406d7>] __report_bad_irq+0x27/0x90
   [<c0140966>] note_interrupt+0x226/0x260
   [<c0141221>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0xc1/0xd0
   [<c0105b38>] do_IRQ+0x88/0xf0
   [<c01039ee>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
   [<c0101be4>] default_idle+0x34/0x70
   [<c0101c8c>] cpu_idle+0x6c/0x90
   [<c0100725>] rest_init+0x25/0x30
   [<c0565839>] start_kernel+0x2f9/0x400
   =======================
  handlers:
  [<c03004c0>] (ahc_linux_isr+0x0/0x60)
  [<c03004c0>] (ahc_linux_isr+0x0/0x60)
  [<c03155c0>] (ata_interrupt+0x0/0x1a0)
  Disabling IRQ #18
  ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
  ata2.00: (BMDMA stat 0x4)
  ata2.00: tag 0 cmd 0xca Emask 0x4 stat 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout)
  ata2: soft resetting port
  ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec)
  ata2.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
  ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
  ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
  ata2: soft resetting port
  ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec)
  ata2.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
  ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
  ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
  ata2: soft resetting port
  ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec)
  ata2.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
  ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
  ata2.00: disabled
  ata2: EH complete
  sd 3:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000
  end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 234436423
  raid1: Disk failure on sdd1, disabling device.
	  Operation continuing on 1 devices
  ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
  ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xe7 Emask 0x4 stat 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout)
  ata1: soft resetting port
  ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec)
  ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
  ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
  ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
  ata1: soft resetting port
  ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec)
  ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
  ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
  ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
  ata1: soft resetting port
  ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec)
  ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
  ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
  ata1.00: disabled
  ata1: EH complete
  sd 2:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000
  end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 234436423
  sd 2:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000
  end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 234436415
  md: ... autorun DONE.
  RAID1 conf printout:
   --- wd:1 rd:2
   disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdc1
   disk 1, wo:1, o:0, dev:sdd1
  RAID1 conf printout:
   --- wd:1 rd:2
   disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdc1

Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Grant Coady]

On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:39:36 +0100, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

>Ar Maw, 2006-09-05 am 15:26 +0200, ysgrifennodd Helge Hafting:
>> between sda/hda unless they also use an initrd.  The kernel
>> itself does not seem to support partition by label. :-(
>
>This is correct and one reason vendor kernels generally use an initrd.
>The kernel does however support "root=/dev/sda1"

Which leads back to this slackware user, who's never used an initrd, 
thinking about dual root partitions just to get the name change from 
another /etc/fstab?  

I dual boot 2.4 / 2.6 kernels, looking for a simple solution so I can 
test Alan's work.  

No udev, no initrd, funny I see a second '/' partition as 'easy'? ;)

I'm missing something here?  Generally /etc/lilo.conf looks like:
  <http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/test/boxen/deltree/lilo.conf>

Grant.

Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Krzysztof Halasa]

Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@gmail.com> writes:

> Which leads back to this slackware user, who's never used an initrd, 
> thinking about dual root partitions just to get the name change from 
> another /etc/fstab?  

I think it's unnecessary, /etc/fstab is not used while mounting root fs,
and both mount and fsck should understand labels (i.e., you can put
labels there, even for root fs).
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa

Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Bill Davidsen]

Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Llu, 2006-09-04 am 07:01 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jeff Garzik:
>> The following must be in all caps, though:
>>
>> drivers/ide IS STILL THE PATA DRIVER SET THAT USERS AND DISTROS SHOULD 
>> CHOOSE.
> 
> Except optionally for the following for chips not handled by or broken
> totally in drivers/ide:
> 
> 	pata_mpiix - some early pentium era laptops
> 	pata_oldpiix - original "PIIX" chipset
> 	pata_radisys - embedded chipset
> 
> The other apparently "libata only" chips are pata_jmicron and
> pata_optidma. There are patches to handle these as "generic" PCI IDE in
> the base 2.6.18 tree already so only features will be lost (eg mode
> switching). As Jeff implies distributions should be using drivers/ide
> for the Jmicron PATA and the Opti DMA PATA for now.
> 
>> * /dev/sdX supports fewer partitions than /dev/hdX (16 versus 64, IIRC)
>>
>> * /dev/sdX does not support all the HDIO_xxx ioctls that /dev/hdX does. 
>>   In practice, the ioctls we ignored are ones that very few people care 
>> about.
> 
> Add "/dev/sr*" does not support partitions. (That needs fixing anyway)
>     
>> * ARM, PPC and other non-x86 platform drivers are severely 
>> under-represented.
> 
> libata needs changes for this too. I have some stuff saved from the
> older discussions to look at.
> 
>> As an aside, I would love to see paride updated to use libata, but we 
>> can probably count the number of paride users on one hand these days...
> 
> and thats without using fingers or thumbs.
> 
> 
I still use that interface, although I can't say it's critical if I 
can't upgrade at some point. There are some other users in the local UG, 
but they are probably not ever going to upgrade.

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and the character set is "big5," an off-by-one errors occurs during
wildcard (glob) expansion.

Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Grant Coady]

On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:57:34 +0200, Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> wrote:

>Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Which leads back to this slackware user, who's never used an initrd, 
>> thinking about dual root partitions just to get the name change from 
>> another /etc/fstab?  
>
>I think it's unnecessary, /etc/fstab is not used while mounting root fs,
>and both mount and fsck should understand labels (i.e., you can put
>labels there, even for root fs).

Thanks, Krzysztof, Alan and others, I can do labels now, avoiding 
them too long ;)

Grant.

Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Alan Cox]

Ar Maw, 2006-09-05 am 16:48 -0400, ysgrifennodd Bill Davidsen:
> I still use that interface, although I can't say it's critical if I 
> can't upgrade at some point. There are some other users in the local UG, 
> but they are probably not ever going to upgrade.

Currently paride is stand alone so it would be pretty hard to break
providing nothing else changes around it. I don't think its in danger of
going away, just of not improving.

Alan

Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Lennert Buytenhek]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 07:01:13AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> * ARM, PPC and other non-x86 platform drivers are severely 
> under-represented.

Allessandro Zummo sent the patch below to me a while ago, for support
for the PATA controller (PIO only, although the hardware can also do
UDMA) in the cirrus logic ep93xx ARM cpu.

The driver has bitrotted somewhat, and apart from that it never honored
PIO timings properly and has some other issues, but Allessandro seems to
have disappeared off the face of the planet.  I'd still like to see
support for this go in at some point, so I'll have a try at cleaning it
up and updating it (and converting it to a platform driver, etc.)


cheers,
Lennert


Index: linux-2.6.16-rc5/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.16-rc5.orig/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc5/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
@@ -912,6 +912,10 @@ config SCSI_PATA_TS7200
 	tristate "TS7200 Compact Flash support"
 	depends on MACH_TS72XX
 
+config SCSI_PATA_EP93XX
+	tristate "Cirrus Logic EP93XX PATA support"
+	depends on ARCH_EP93XX
+
 config SCSI_BUSLOGIC
 	tristate "BusLogic SCSI support"
 	depends on (PCI || ISA || MCA) && SCSI && ISA_DMA_API
Index: linux-2.6.16-rc5/drivers/scsi/Makefile
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.16-rc5.orig/drivers/scsi/Makefile
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc5/drivers/scsi/Makefile
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_PATA_WINBOND)	+= libat
 obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_GENERIC)	+= libata.o ata_generic.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_PATA_LEGACY)	+= libata.o pata_legacy.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_PATA_TS7200)	+= libata.o pata_ts7200.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_PATA_EP93XX)		+= libata.o pata_ep93xx.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_ARM)		+= arm/
 
Index: linux-2.6.16-rc5/drivers/scsi/pata_ep93xx.c
===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc5/drivers/scsi/pata_ep93xx.c
@@ -0,0 +1,375 @@
+/*
+ * EP93XX PATA controller driver.
+ * Copyright (c) 2006 Tower Technologies
+ * Author: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
+ *
+ * An ATA driver to handle the embedded IDE controller
+ * of the Cirrus Logic EP93XX.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/libata.h>
+#include <scsi/scsi_host.h>
+#include <linux/platform_device.h>
+
+#define DRV_NAME	"pata_ep93xx"
+#define DRV_VERSION	"0.1"
+
+struct ata_host_set *ep93xx_host;
+
+static inline void ep93xx_toggle_wr(register u32 ctrl)
+{
+	ctrl &= ~(EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DIOWn);
+	__raw_writel(ctrl, EP93XX_IDE_CTRL);
+
+	ctrl |= EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DIOWn;
+	__raw_writel(ctrl, EP93XX_IDE_CTRL);
+}
+
+static inline void ep93xx_toggle_rd(register u32 ctrl)
+{
+	ctrl &= ~(EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DIORn);
+	__raw_writel(ctrl, EP93XX_IDE_CTRL);
+
+	ctrl |= EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DIORn;
+	__raw_writel(ctrl, EP93XX_IDE_CTRL);
+}
+
+#define ep93xx_write_addr(ctrl,addr) { \
+	ctrl = (ctrl & ~(EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DA_CS_MASK)) | EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DA_CS(addr); \
+	__raw_writel(ctrl, EP93XX_IDE_CTRL); }
+
+static inline void ep93xx_writew(register u16 value, volatile void __iomem *p)
+{
+	register u32 ctrl = __raw_readl(EP93XX_IDE_CTRL);
+
+	ep93xx_write_addr(ctrl, (unsigned long) p);
+	__raw_writel(value, EP93XX_IDE_DATAOUT);
+	ep93xx_toggle_wr(ctrl);
+}
+
+#define ep93xx_writeb(value,addr) ep93xx_writew(value,addr)
+
+static inline unsigned short ep93xx_readw(volatile void __iomem *p)
+{
+	register u32 ctrl = __raw_readl(EP93XX_IDE_CTRL);
+
+	ep93xx_write_addr(ctrl, (unsigned long) p);
+	ep93xx_toggle_rd(ctrl);
+	return __raw_readl(EP93XX_IDE_DATAIN);
+}
+
+#define ep93xx_readb(addr) ep93xx_readw(addr)
+
+static unsigned int ep93xx_mode_filter(const struct ata_port *ap,
+	struct ata_device *adev, unsigned int mask, int shift)
+{
+	if (shift != ATA_SHIFT_PIO)
+		return 0;
+	return mask;
+}
+
+static void ep93xx_set_mode(struct ata_port *ap)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < ATA_MAX_DEVICES; i++) {
+		struct ata_device *dev = &ap->device[i];
+		if (ata_dev_present(dev)) {
+			dev->pio_mode = XFER_PIO_0;
+			dev->xfer_mode = XFER_PIO_0;
+			dev->xfer_shift = ATA_SHIFT_PIO;
+			dev->flags |= ATA_DFLAG_PIO;
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+static void ep93xx_phy_reset(struct ata_port *ap)
+{
+	ap->cbl = ATA_CBL_PATA40;
+	ata_port_probe(ap);
+	ata_bus_reset(ap);
+}
+
+static void ep93xx_irq_clear(struct ata_port *ap)
+{
+}
+
+static void ep93xx_irq_on(struct ata_port *ap)
+{
+}
+
+static void ep93xx_tf_load(struct ata_port *ap, const struct ata_taskfile *tf)
+{
+	struct ata_ioports *ioaddr = &ap->ioaddr;
+	unsigned int is_addr = tf->flags & ATA_TFLAG_ISADDR;
+
+	if (tf->ctl != ap->last_ctl) {
+		ep93xx_writeb(tf->ctl, (void __iomem *) ap->ioaddr.ctl_addr);
+		ap->last_ctl = tf->ctl;
+		ata_wait_idle(ap);
+	}
+
+	if (is_addr && (tf->flags & ATA_TFLAG_LBA48)) {
+		ep93xx_writeb(tf->hob_feature, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->feature_addr);
+		ep93xx_writeb(tf->hob_nsect, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->nsect_addr);
+		ep93xx_writeb(tf->hob_lbal, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->lbal_addr);
+		ep93xx_writeb(tf->hob_lbam, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->lbam_addr);
+		ep93xx_writeb(tf->hob_lbah, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->lbah_addr);
+		VPRINTK("hob: feat 0x%X nsect 0x%X, lba 0x%X 0x%X 0x%X\n",
+			tf->hob_feature,
+			tf->hob_nsect,
+			tf->hob_lbal,
+			tf->hob_lbam,
+			tf->hob_lbah);
+	}
+
+	if (is_addr) {
+		ep93xx_writeb(tf->feature, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->feature_addr);
+		ep93xx_writeb(tf->nsect, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->nsect_addr);
+		ep93xx_writeb(tf->lbal, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->lbal_addr);
+		ep93xx_writeb(tf->lbam, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->lbam_addr);
+		ep93xx_writeb(tf->lbah, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->lbah_addr);
+		VPRINTK("feat 0x%X nsect 0x%X lba 0x%X 0x%X 0x%X\n",
+			tf->feature,
+			tf->nsect,
+			tf->lbal,
+			tf->lbam,
+			tf->lbah);
+	}
+
+	if (tf->flags & ATA_TFLAG_DEVICE) {
+		ep93xx_writeb(tf->device, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->device_addr);
+		VPRINTK("device 0x%X\n", tf->device);
+	}
+
+	ata_wait_idle(ap);
+}
+
+static void ep93xx_tf_read(struct ata_port *ap, struct ata_taskfile *tf)
+{
+	struct ata_ioports *ioaddr = &ap->ioaddr;
+
+	tf->command = ap->ops->check_status(ap);
+	tf->feature = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ioaddr->error_addr);
+	tf->nsect = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ioaddr->nsect_addr);
+	tf->lbal = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ioaddr->lbal_addr);
+	tf->lbam = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ioaddr->lbam_addr);
+	tf->lbah = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ioaddr->lbah_addr);
+	tf->device = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ioaddr->device_addr);
+
+	if (tf->flags & ATA_TFLAG_LBA48) {
+		ep93xx_writeb(tf->ctl | ATA_HOB, (void __iomem *) ap->ioaddr.ctl_addr);
+		tf->hob_feature = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ioaddr->error_addr);
+		tf->hob_nsect = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ioaddr->nsect_addr);
+		tf->hob_lbal = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ioaddr->lbal_addr);
+		tf->hob_lbam = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ioaddr->lbam_addr);
+		tf->hob_lbah = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ioaddr->lbah_addr);
+	}
+}
+
+static u8 ep93xx_check_status(struct ata_port *ap)
+{
+	return ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *) ap->ioaddr.status_addr);
+}
+
+static u8 ep93xx_check_altstatus(struct ata_port *ap)
+{
+	return ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ap->ioaddr.altstatus_addr);
+}
+
+static void ep93xx_exec_command(struct ata_port *ap, const struct ata_taskfile *tf)
+{
+	DPRINTK("ata%u: cmd 0x%X\n", ap->id, tf->command);
+
+	ep93xx_writeb(tf->command, (void __iomem *) ap->ioaddr.command_addr);
+	ata_pause(ap);
+}
+
+static unsigned int ep93xx_dev_check(struct ata_port *ap, unsigned int device)
+{
+	struct ata_ioports *ioaddr = &ap->ioaddr;
+	u8 nsect, lbal;
+
+	ap->ops->dev_select(ap, device);
+
+	ep93xx_writeb(0x55, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->nsect_addr);
+	ep93xx_writeb(0xaa, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->lbal_addr);
+
+	ep93xx_writeb(0xaa, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->nsect_addr);
+	ep93xx_writeb(0x55, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->lbal_addr);
+
+	ep93xx_writeb(0x55, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->nsect_addr);
+	ep93xx_writeb(0xaa, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->lbal_addr);
+
+	nsect = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *) ioaddr->nsect_addr);
+	lbal = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *) ioaddr->lbal_addr);
+
+	if ((nsect == 0x55) && (lbal == 0xaa))
+		return 1;	/* we found a device */
+
+	return 0;		/* nothing found */
+}
+
+static void ep93xx_dev_select (struct ata_port *ap, unsigned int device)
+{
+	u8 tmp;
+
+	if (device == 0)
+		tmp = ATA_DEVICE_OBS;
+	else
+		tmp = ATA_DEVICE_OBS | ATA_DEV1;
+
+	ep93xx_writeb(tmp, (void __iomem *) ap->ioaddr.device_addr);
+
+	ata_pause(ap);	/* needed; also flushes, for mmio */
+}
+
+static void ep93xx_data_xfer(struct ata_port *ap, struct ata_device *adev,
+			unsigned char *buf, unsigned int buflen, int write_data)
+{
+	unsigned int i;
+	unsigned int words = buflen >> 1;
+	u16 *buf16 = (u16 *) buf;
+	void __iomem *mmio = (void __iomem *)ap->ioaddr.data_addr;
+
+	/* Transfer multiple of 2 bytes */
+	if (write_data) {
+		for (i = 0; i < words; i++)
+			ep93xx_writew(le16_to_cpu(buf16[i]), mmio);
+	} else {
+		for (i = 0; i < words; i++)
+			buf16[i] = cpu_to_le16(ep93xx_readw(mmio));
+	}
+
+	/* Transfer trailing 1 byte, if any. */
+	if (unlikely(buflen & 0x01)) {
+		u16 align_buf[1] = { 0 };
+		unsigned char *trailing_buf = buf + buflen - 1;
+
+		if (write_data) {
+			memcpy(align_buf, trailing_buf, 1);
+			ep93xx_writew(le16_to_cpu(align_buf[0]), mmio);
+		} else {
+			align_buf[0] = cpu_to_le16(ep93xx_readw(mmio));
+			memcpy(trailing_buf, align_buf, 1);
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+static struct scsi_host_template ep93xx_sht = {
+	.module			= THIS_MODULE,
+	.name			= DRV_NAME,
+	.ioctl			= ata_scsi_ioctl,
+	.queuecommand		= ata_scsi_queuecmd,
+	.eh_strategy_handler	= ata_scsi_error,
+	.can_queue		= ATA_DEF_QUEUE,
+	.this_id		= ATA_SHT_THIS_ID,
+	.sg_tablesize		= LIBATA_MAX_PRD,
+	.max_sectors		= ATA_MAX_SECTORS,
+	.cmd_per_lun		= ATA_SHT_CMD_PER_LUN,
+	.emulated		= ATA_SHT_EMULATED,
+	.use_clustering		= ATA_SHT_USE_CLUSTERING,
+	.proc_name		= DRV_NAME,
+	.dma_boundary		= ATA_DMA_BOUNDARY,
+	.slave_configure	= ata_scsi_slave_config,
+	.bios_param		= ata_std_bios_param,
+};
+
+static struct ata_port_operations ep93xx_port_ops = {
+	.set_mode		= ep93xx_set_mode,
+	.mode_filter		= ep93xx_mode_filter,
+
+	.port_disable		= ata_port_disable,
+	.tf_load		= ep93xx_tf_load,
+	.tf_read		= ep93xx_tf_read,
+	.check_status 		= ep93xx_check_status,
+	.check_altstatus	= ep93xx_check_altstatus,
+	.exec_command		= ep93xx_exec_command,
+	.data_xfer		= ep93xx_data_xfer,
+
+	.dev_select 		= ep93xx_dev_select,
+	.dev_check		= ep93xx_dev_check,
+
+	.qc_prep 		= ata_qc_prep,
+	.qc_issue		= ata_qc_issue_prot,
+	.eng_timeout		= ata_eng_timeout,
+
+	.irq_handler		= ata_interrupt,
+	.irq_clear		= ep93xx_irq_clear,
+	.irq_on			= ep93xx_irq_on,
+
+	.port_start		= ata_port_start,
+	.port_stop		= ata_port_stop,
+	.host_stop		= ata_host_stop,
+
+	.phy_reset		= ep93xx_phy_reset,
+};
+
+/* Setup the addresses and encode CSx within them */
+static void ep93xx_ports(struct ata_ioports *ioaddr)
+{
+	ioaddr->cmd_addr	= 0 + 2; /* CS1 */
+	ioaddr->altstatus_addr	= (0x06 << 2) + 1; /* CS0 */
+	ioaddr->ctl_addr	= (0x06 << 2) + 1; /* CS0 */
+
+	ioaddr->data_addr	= (ATA_REG_DATA << 2) + 2;
+	ioaddr->error_addr	= (ATA_REG_ERR << 2) + 2;
+	ioaddr->feature_addr	= (ATA_REG_FEATURE << 2) + 2;
+	ioaddr->nsect_addr	= (ATA_REG_NSECT << 2) + 2;
+	ioaddr->lbal_addr	= (ATA_REG_LBAL << 2) + 2;
+	ioaddr->lbam_addr	= (ATA_REG_LBAM << 2) + 2;
+	ioaddr->lbah_addr	= (ATA_REG_LBAH << 2) + 2;
+	ioaddr->device_addr	= (ATA_REG_DEVICE << 2) + 2;
+	ioaddr->status_addr	= (ATA_REG_STATUS << 2) + 2;
+	ioaddr->command_addr	= (ATA_REG_CMD << 2) + 2;
+}
+
+static int __init ep93xx_pata_init(void)
+{
+	int ret;
+	struct ata_probe_ent ae;
+
+	memset(&ae, 0, sizeof(struct ata_probe_ent));
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ae.node);
+
+	ae.dev		= NULL;
+	ae.private_data = NULL;
+	ae.port_ops	= &ep93xx_port_ops;
+	ae.sht		= &ep93xx_sht;
+	ae.n_ports	= 1;
+	ae.pio_mask	= 0x1f; /* PIO4 */
+	ae.irq		= 0;
+	ae.irq_flags	= 0;
+	ae.host_flags	= ATA_FLAG_IRQ_MASK | ATA_FLAG_MMIO;
+
+	ep93xx_ports(&ae.port[0]);
+
+	/* enable ide and set pio mode 4 */
+	__raw_writel(EP93XX_IDE_CFG_IDEEN | EP93XX_IDE_CFG_PIO |
+			EP93XX_IDE_CFG_WST(0) | EP93XX_IDE_CFG_MODE(4),
+			EP93XX_IDE_CFG);
+
+	ret = ata_device_add(&ae);
+	if (ret == 0)
+		return -ENODEV;
+
+	ep93xx_host = ae.host_set;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void __exit ep93xx_pata_exit(void)
+{
+	if (ep93xx_host)
+		ata_host_set_remove(ep93xx_host);
+}
+
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("low-level driver for ep93xx ATA");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_VERSION(DRV_VERSION);
+
+module_init(ep93xx_pata_init);
+module_exit(ep93xx_pata_exit);
Index: linux-2.6.16-rc5/include/asm-arm/arch-ep93xx/ep93xx-regs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.16-rc5.orig/include/asm-arm/arch-ep93xx/ep93xx-regs.h
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc5/include/asm-arm/arch-ep93xx/ep93xx-regs.h
@@ -42,6 +42,32 @@
 #define EP93XX_BOOT_ROM_BASE		(EP93XX_AHB_VIRT_BASE + 0x00090000)
 
 #define EP93XX_IDE_BASE			(EP93XX_AHB_VIRT_BASE + 0x000a0000)
+#define EP93XX_IDE_REG(x)		(EP93XX_IDE_BASE + (x))
+#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL			EP93XX_IDE_REG(0x0000)
+#define EP93XX_IDE_CFG			EP93XX_IDE_REG(0x0004)
+#define EP93XX_IDE_DATAOUT		EP93XX_IDE_REG(0x0010)
+#define EP93XX_IDE_DATAIN		EP93XX_IDE_REG(0x0014)
+
+#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_CS0n		(1L << 0)
+#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_CS1n		(1L << 1)
+#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DA_MASK		0x1C
+#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DA(x)		((x << 2) & EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DA_MASK)
+#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DA_CS_MASK	(EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DA_MASK | EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_CS0n | EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_CS1n)
+#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DA_CS(x)	(((x)) & EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DA_CS_MASK)
+#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DIORn		(1L << 5)
+#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DIOWn		(1L << 6)
+#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DASPn		(1L << 7)
+#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DMARQ		(1L << 8)
+#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_INTRQ		(1L << 9)
+#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_IORDY		(1L << 10)
+
+#define EP93XX_IDE_CFG_IDEEN		(1L << 0)
+#define EP93XX_IDE_CFG_PIO		(1L << 1)
+#define EP93XX_IDE_CFG_MDMA		(1L << 2)
+#define EP93XX_IDE_CFG_UDMA		(1L << 3)
+#define EP93XX_IDE_CFG_MODE(x)		((x & 0x0F) << 4)
+#define EP93XX_IDE_CFG_WST(x)		((x & 0x03) << 8)
+
 
 #define EP93XX_VIC1_BASE		(EP93XX_AHB_VIRT_BASE + 0x000b0000)
 

Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Jeff Garzik]

Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 07:01:13AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>> * ARM, PPC and other non-x86 platform drivers are severely 
>> under-represented.
> 
> Allessandro Zummo sent the patch below to me a while ago, for support
> for the PATA controller (PIO only, although the hardware can also do
> UDMA) in the cirrus logic ep93xx ARM cpu.
> 
> The driver has bitrotted somewhat, and apart from that it never honored
> PIO timings properly and has some other issues, but Allessandro seems to
> have disappeared off the face of the planet.  I'd still like to see
> support for this go in at some point, so I'll have a try at cleaning it
> up and updating it (and converting it to a platform driver, etc.)

Please do, I'm definitely interested in it.

If you can diff against jgarzik/libata-dev.git#upstream, that would be 
most helpful.  That's where the other PATA drivers and API updates are, 
as well as a move of everything libata into drivers/ata.

I've included a few comments below, if they are of any help.


> Index: linux-2.6.16-rc5/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.16-rc5.orig/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> +++ linux-2.6.16-rc5/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> @@ -912,6 +912,10 @@ config SCSI_PATA_TS7200
>  	tristate "TS7200 Compact Flash support"
>  	depends on MACH_TS72XX
>  
> +config SCSI_PATA_EP93XX
> +	tristate "Cirrus Logic EP93XX PATA support"
> +	depends on ARCH_EP93XX
> +
>  config SCSI_BUSLOGIC
>  	tristate "BusLogic SCSI support"
>  	depends on (PCI || ISA || MCA) && SCSI && ISA_DMA_API
> Index: linux-2.6.16-rc5/drivers/scsi/Makefile
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.16-rc5.orig/drivers/scsi/Makefile
> +++ linux-2.6.16-rc5/drivers/scsi/Makefile
> @@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_PATA_WINBOND)	+= libat
>  obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_GENERIC)	+= libata.o ata_generic.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_PATA_LEGACY)	+= libata.o pata_legacy.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_PATA_TS7200)	+= libata.o pata_ts7200.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_PATA_EP93XX)		+= libata.o pata_ep93xx.o

this stuff moves to drivers/ata, and changes to CONFIG_PATA_xxx


> Index: linux-2.6.16-rc5/drivers/scsi/pata_ep93xx.c
> ===================================================================
> --- /dev/null
> +++ linux-2.6.16-rc5/drivers/scsi/pata_ep93xx.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,375 @@
> +/*
> + * EP93XX PATA controller driver.
> + * Copyright (c) 2006 Tower Technologies
> + * Author: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
> + *
> + * An ATA driver to handle the embedded IDE controller
> + * of the Cirrus Logic EP93XX.
> + */
> +
> +#include <linux/kernel.h>
> +#include <linux/module.h>
> +#include <linux/libata.h>
> +#include <scsi/scsi_host.h>
> +#include <linux/platform_device.h>
> +
> +#define DRV_NAME	"pata_ep93xx"
> +#define DRV_VERSION	"0.1"
> +
> +struct ata_host_set *ep93xx_host;

this should be stored in the platform_driver's driver_data area.

The code should be pretty darn close to the current libata PCI code, 
which uses pci_set_drvdata().


> +static inline void ep93xx_toggle_wr(register u32 ctrl)

no 'register', please

> +{
> +	ctrl &= ~(EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DIOWn);
> +	__raw_writel(ctrl, EP93XX_IDE_CTRL);
> +
> +	ctrl |= EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DIOWn;
> +	__raw_writel(ctrl, EP93XX_IDE_CTRL);
> +}
> +
> +static inline void ep93xx_toggle_rd(register u32 ctrl)

ditto


> +{
> +	ctrl &= ~(EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DIORn);
> +	__raw_writel(ctrl, EP93XX_IDE_CTRL);
> +
> +	ctrl |= EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DIORn;
> +	__raw_writel(ctrl, EP93XX_IDE_CTRL);
> +}
> +
> +#define ep93xx_write_addr(ctrl,addr) { \
> +	ctrl = (ctrl & ~(EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DA_CS_MASK)) | EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DA_CS(addr); \
> +	__raw_writel(ctrl, EP93XX_IDE_CTRL); }

this could be static inline too, AFAICS?


> +static inline void ep93xx_writew(register u16 value, volatile void __iomem *p)

no 'volatile' or 'register', please


> +{
> +	register u32 ctrl = __raw_readl(EP93XX_IDE_CTRL);
> +
> +	ep93xx_write_addr(ctrl, (unsigned long) p);
> +	__raw_writel(value, EP93XX_IDE_DATAOUT);
> +	ep93xx_toggle_wr(ctrl);
> +}
> +
> +#define ep93xx_writeb(value,addr) ep93xx_writew(value,addr)
> +
> +static inline unsigned short ep93xx_readw(volatile void __iomem *p)
> +{
> +	register u32 ctrl = __raw_readl(EP93XX_IDE_CTRL);

ditto


> +	ep93xx_write_addr(ctrl, (unsigned long) p);
> +	ep93xx_toggle_rd(ctrl);
> +	return __raw_readl(EP93XX_IDE_DATAIN);
> +}
> +
> +#define ep93xx_readb(addr) ep93xx_readw(addr)
> +
> +static unsigned int ep93xx_mode_filter(const struct ata_port *ap,
> +	struct ata_device *adev, unsigned int mask, int shift)
> +{
> +	if (shift != ATA_SHIFT_PIO)
> +		return 0;
> +	return mask;
> +}
> +
> +static void ep93xx_set_mode(struct ata_port *ap)
> +{
> +	int i;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < ATA_MAX_DEVICES; i++) {
> +		struct ata_device *dev = &ap->device[i];
> +		if (ata_dev_present(dev)) {
> +			dev->pio_mode = XFER_PIO_0;
> +			dev->xfer_mode = XFER_PIO_0;
> +			dev->xfer_shift = ATA_SHIFT_PIO;
> +			dev->flags |= ATA_DFLAG_PIO;
> +		}
> +	}
> +}
> +
> +static void ep93xx_phy_reset(struct ata_port *ap)
> +{
> +	ap->cbl = ATA_CBL_PATA40;
> +	ata_port_probe(ap);
> +	ata_bus_reset(ap);
> +}
> +
> +static void ep93xx_irq_clear(struct ata_port *ap)
> +{
> +}
> +
> +static void ep93xx_irq_on(struct ata_port *ap)
> +{
> +}
> +
> +static void ep93xx_tf_load(struct ata_port *ap, const struct ata_taskfile *tf)
> +{
> +	struct ata_ioports *ioaddr = &ap->ioaddr;
> +	unsigned int is_addr = tf->flags & ATA_TFLAG_ISADDR;
> +
> +	if (tf->ctl != ap->last_ctl) {
> +		ep93xx_writeb(tf->ctl, (void __iomem *) ap->ioaddr.ctl_addr);
> +		ap->last_ctl = tf->ctl;
> +		ata_wait_idle(ap);
> +	}
> +
> +	if (is_addr && (tf->flags & ATA_TFLAG_LBA48)) {
> +		ep93xx_writeb(tf->hob_feature, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->feature_addr);
> +		ep93xx_writeb(tf->hob_nsect, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->nsect_addr);
> +		ep93xx_writeb(tf->hob_lbal, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->lbal_addr);
> +		ep93xx_writeb(tf->hob_lbam, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->lbam_addr);
> +		ep93xx_writeb(tf->hob_lbah, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->lbah_addr);
> +		VPRINTK("hob: feat 0x%X nsect 0x%X, lba 0x%X 0x%X 0x%X\n",
> +			tf->hob_feature,
> +			tf->hob_nsect,
> +			tf->hob_lbal,
> +			tf->hob_lbam,
> +			tf->hob_lbah);
> +	}
> +
> +	if (is_addr) {
> +		ep93xx_writeb(tf->feature, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->feature_addr);
> +		ep93xx_writeb(tf->nsect, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->nsect_addr);
> +		ep93xx_writeb(tf->lbal, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->lbal_addr);
> +		ep93xx_writeb(tf->lbam, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->lbam_addr);
> +		ep93xx_writeb(tf->lbah, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->lbah_addr);
> +		VPRINTK("feat 0x%X nsect 0x%X lba 0x%X 0x%X 0x%X\n",
> +			tf->feature,
> +			tf->nsect,
> +			tf->lbal,
> +			tf->lbam,
> +			tf->lbah);
> +	}
> +
> +	if (tf->flags & ATA_TFLAG_DEVICE) {
> +		ep93xx_writeb(tf->device, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->device_addr);
> +		VPRINTK("device 0x%X\n", tf->device);
> +	}
> +
> +	ata_wait_idle(ap);
> +}
> +
> +static void ep93xx_tf_read(struct ata_port *ap, struct ata_taskfile *tf)
> +{
> +	struct ata_ioports *ioaddr = &ap->ioaddr;
> +
> +	tf->command = ap->ops->check_status(ap);

remove indirection in the hot path, by directly calling 
ep93xx_check_status() here


> +	tf->feature = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ioaddr->error_addr);
> +	tf->nsect = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ioaddr->nsect_addr);
> +	tf->lbal = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ioaddr->lbal_addr);
> +	tf->lbam = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ioaddr->lbam_addr);
> +	tf->lbah = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ioaddr->lbah_addr);
> +	tf->device = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ioaddr->device_addr);
> +
> +	if (tf->flags & ATA_TFLAG_LBA48) {
> +		ep93xx_writeb(tf->ctl | ATA_HOB, (void __iomem *) ap->ioaddr.ctl_addr);
> +		tf->hob_feature = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ioaddr->error_addr);
> +		tf->hob_nsect = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ioaddr->nsect_addr);
> +		tf->hob_lbal = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ioaddr->lbal_addr);
> +		tf->hob_lbam = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ioaddr->lbam_addr);
> +		tf->hob_lbah = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ioaddr->lbah_addr);
> +	}
> +}
> +
> +static u8 ep93xx_check_status(struct ata_port *ap)
> +{
> +	return ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *) ap->ioaddr.status_addr);
> +}
> +
> +static u8 ep93xx_check_altstatus(struct ata_port *ap)
> +{
> +	return ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *)ap->ioaddr.altstatus_addr);
> +}
> +
> +static void ep93xx_exec_command(struct ata_port *ap, const struct ata_taskfile *tf)
> +{
> +	DPRINTK("ata%u: cmd 0x%X\n", ap->id, tf->command);
> +
> +	ep93xx_writeb(tf->command, (void __iomem *) ap->ioaddr.command_addr);
> +	ata_pause(ap);
> +}
> +
> +static unsigned int ep93xx_dev_check(struct ata_port *ap, unsigned int device)
> +{
> +	struct ata_ioports *ioaddr = &ap->ioaddr;
> +	u8 nsect, lbal;
> +
> +	ap->ops->dev_select(ap, device);
> +
> +	ep93xx_writeb(0x55, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->nsect_addr);
> +	ep93xx_writeb(0xaa, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->lbal_addr);
> +
> +	ep93xx_writeb(0xaa, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->nsect_addr);
> +	ep93xx_writeb(0x55, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->lbal_addr);
> +
> +	ep93xx_writeb(0x55, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->nsect_addr);
> +	ep93xx_writeb(0xaa, (void __iomem *) ioaddr->lbal_addr);
> +
> +	nsect = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *) ioaddr->nsect_addr);
> +	lbal = ep93xx_readb((void __iomem *) ioaddr->lbal_addr);
> +
> +	if ((nsect == 0x55) && (lbal == 0xaa))
> +		return 1;	/* we found a device */
> +
> +	return 0;		/* nothing found */
> +}
> +
> +static void ep93xx_dev_select (struct ata_port *ap, unsigned int device)
> +{
> +	u8 tmp;
> +
> +	if (device == 0)
> +		tmp = ATA_DEVICE_OBS;
> +	else
> +		tmp = ATA_DEVICE_OBS | ATA_DEV1;
> +
> +	ep93xx_writeb(tmp, (void __iomem *) ap->ioaddr.device_addr);
> +
> +	ata_pause(ap);	/* needed; also flushes, for mmio */
> +}
> +
> +static void ep93xx_data_xfer(struct ata_port *ap, struct ata_device *adev,
> +			unsigned char *buf, unsigned int buflen, int write_data)
> +{
> +	unsigned int i;
> +	unsigned int words = buflen >> 1;
> +	u16 *buf16 = (u16 *) buf;
> +	void __iomem *mmio = (void __iomem *)ap->ioaddr.data_addr;
> +
> +	/* Transfer multiple of 2 bytes */
> +	if (write_data) {
> +		for (i = 0; i < words; i++)
> +			ep93xx_writew(le16_to_cpu(buf16[i]), mmio);
> +	} else {
> +		for (i = 0; i < words; i++)
> +			buf16[i] = cpu_to_le16(ep93xx_readw(mmio));
> +	}
> +
> +	/* Transfer trailing 1 byte, if any. */
> +	if (unlikely(buflen & 0x01)) {
> +		u16 align_buf[1] = { 0 };
> +		unsigned char *trailing_buf = buf + buflen - 1;
> +
> +		if (write_data) {
> +			memcpy(align_buf, trailing_buf, 1);
> +			ep93xx_writew(le16_to_cpu(align_buf[0]), mmio);
> +		} else {
> +			align_buf[0] = cpu_to_le16(ep93xx_readw(mmio));
> +			memcpy(trailing_buf, align_buf, 1);

any chance your platform as string functions, a la insl() ?


> +static struct scsi_host_template ep93xx_sht = {
> +	.module			= THIS_MODULE,
> +	.name			= DRV_NAME,
> +	.ioctl			= ata_scsi_ioctl,
> +	.queuecommand		= ata_scsi_queuecmd,
> +	.eh_strategy_handler	= ata_scsi_error,
> +	.can_queue		= ATA_DEF_QUEUE,
> +	.this_id		= ATA_SHT_THIS_ID,
> +	.sg_tablesize		= LIBATA_MAX_PRD,
> +	.max_sectors		= ATA_MAX_SECTORS,
> +	.cmd_per_lun		= ATA_SHT_CMD_PER_LUN,
> +	.emulated		= ATA_SHT_EMULATED,
> +	.use_clustering		= ATA_SHT_USE_CLUSTERING,
> +	.proc_name		= DRV_NAME,
> +	.dma_boundary		= ATA_DMA_BOUNDARY,
> +	.slave_configure	= ata_scsi_slave_config,
> +	.bios_param		= ata_std_bios_param,
> +};
> +
> +static struct ata_port_operations ep93xx_port_ops = {
> +	.set_mode		= ep93xx_set_mode,
> +	.mode_filter		= ep93xx_mode_filter,
> +
> +	.port_disable		= ata_port_disable,
> +	.tf_load		= ep93xx_tf_load,
> +	.tf_read		= ep93xx_tf_read,
> +	.check_status 		= ep93xx_check_status,
> +	.check_altstatus	= ep93xx_check_altstatus,
> +	.exec_command		= ep93xx_exec_command,
> +	.data_xfer		= ep93xx_data_xfer,
> +
> +	.dev_select 		= ep93xx_dev_select,
> +	.dev_check		= ep93xx_dev_check,
> +
> +	.qc_prep 		= ata_qc_prep,
> +	.qc_issue		= ata_qc_issue_prot,
> +	.eng_timeout		= ata_eng_timeout,
> +
> +	.irq_handler		= ata_interrupt,
> +	.irq_clear		= ep93xx_irq_clear,
> +	.irq_on			= ep93xx_irq_on,
> +
> +	.port_start		= ata_port_start,
> +	.port_stop		= ata_port_stop,
> +	.host_stop		= ata_host_stop,
> +
> +	.phy_reset		= ep93xx_phy_reset,

this driver will need updating for the new EH.  Existing PATA drivers in 
drivers/ata/pata_* provide plenty of examples.  It's mostly just 
deleting ->eng_timeout() hook and a couple others, and using the new 
reset driver.


> +/* Setup the addresses and encode CSx within them */
> +static void ep93xx_ports(struct ata_ioports *ioaddr)
> +{
> +	ioaddr->cmd_addr	= 0 + 2; /* CS1 */
> +	ioaddr->altstatus_addr	= (0x06 << 2) + 1; /* CS0 */
> +	ioaddr->ctl_addr	= (0x06 << 2) + 1; /* CS0 */
> +
> +	ioaddr->data_addr	= (ATA_REG_DATA << 2) + 2;
> +	ioaddr->error_addr	= (ATA_REG_ERR << 2) + 2;
> +	ioaddr->feature_addr	= (ATA_REG_FEATURE << 2) + 2;
> +	ioaddr->nsect_addr	= (ATA_REG_NSECT << 2) + 2;
> +	ioaddr->lbal_addr	= (ATA_REG_LBAL << 2) + 2;
> +	ioaddr->lbam_addr	= (ATA_REG_LBAM << 2) + 2;
> +	ioaddr->lbah_addr	= (ATA_REG_LBAH << 2) + 2;
> +	ioaddr->device_addr	= (ATA_REG_DEVICE << 2) + 2;
> +	ioaddr->status_addr	= (ATA_REG_STATUS << 2) + 2;
> +	ioaddr->command_addr	= (ATA_REG_CMD << 2) + 2;
> +}
> +
> +static int __init ep93xx_pata_init(void)
> +{
> +	int ret;
> +	struct ata_probe_ent ae;
> +
> +	memset(&ae, 0, sizeof(struct ata_probe_ent));
> +	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ae.node);
> +
> +	ae.dev		= NULL;
> +	ae.private_data = NULL;
> +	ae.port_ops	= &ep93xx_port_ops;
> +	ae.sht		= &ep93xx_sht;
> +	ae.n_ports	= 1;
> +	ae.pio_mask	= 0x1f; /* PIO4 */
> +	ae.irq		= 0;
> +	ae.irq_flags	= 0;
> +	ae.host_flags	= ATA_FLAG_IRQ_MASK | ATA_FLAG_MMIO;
> +
> +	ep93xx_ports(&ae.port[0]);
> +
> +	/* enable ide and set pio mode 4 */
> +	__raw_writel(EP93XX_IDE_CFG_IDEEN | EP93XX_IDE_CFG_PIO |
> +			EP93XX_IDE_CFG_WST(0) | EP93XX_IDE_CFG_MODE(4),
> +			EP93XX_IDE_CFG);
> +
> +	ret = ata_device_add(&ae);
> +	if (ret == 0)
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +
> +	ep93xx_host = ae.host_set;
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static void __exit ep93xx_pata_exit(void)
> +{
> +	if (ep93xx_host)
> +		ata_host_set_remove(ep93xx_host);
> +}
> +
> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>");
> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("low-level driver for ep93xx ATA");
> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> +MODULE_VERSION(DRV_VERSION);
> +
> +module_init(ep93xx_pata_init);
> +module_exit(ep93xx_pata_exit);
> Index: linux-2.6.16-rc5/include/asm-arm/arch-ep93xx/ep93xx-regs.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.16-rc5.orig/include/asm-arm/arch-ep93xx/ep93xx-regs.h
> +++ linux-2.6.16-rc5/include/asm-arm/arch-ep93xx/ep93xx-regs.h
> @@ -42,6 +42,32 @@
>  #define EP93XX_BOOT_ROM_BASE		(EP93XX_AHB_VIRT_BASE + 0x00090000)
>  
>  #define EP93XX_IDE_BASE			(EP93XX_AHB_VIRT_BASE + 0x000a0000)
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_REG(x)		(EP93XX_IDE_BASE + (x))
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL			EP93XX_IDE_REG(0x0000)
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_CFG			EP93XX_IDE_REG(0x0004)
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_DATAOUT		EP93XX_IDE_REG(0x0010)
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_DATAIN		EP93XX_IDE_REG(0x0014)
> +
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_CS0n		(1L << 0)
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_CS1n		(1L << 1)
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DA_MASK		0x1C
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DA(x)		((x << 2) & EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DA_MASK)
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DA_CS_MASK	(EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DA_MASK | EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_CS0n | EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_CS1n)
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DA_CS(x)	(((x)) & EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DA_CS_MASK)
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DIORn		(1L << 5)
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DIOWn		(1L << 6)
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DASPn		(1L << 7)
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_DMARQ		(1L << 8)
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_INTRQ		(1L << 9)
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_CTRL_IORDY		(1L << 10)
> +
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_CFG_IDEEN		(1L << 0)
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_CFG_PIO		(1L << 1)
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_CFG_MDMA		(1L << 2)
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_CFG_UDMA		(1L << 3)
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_CFG_MODE(x)		((x & 0x0F) << 4)
> +#define EP93XX_IDE_CFG_WST(x)		((x & 0x03) << 8)

would prefer that this stuff go into the pata_ep93xx.c file, if it's not 
used anywhere else